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Radio 4,11 Jul 2025,45 mins

How serious is Labour's rift with top union?

The World Tonight

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Labour's biggest union backer Unite has suspended Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner as a member, and threatened to pull the plug on party funding over the Birmingham bin strike. We get reaction from a local Labour MP. Also on the programme: The preliminary report into the Air India plane crash last month has just been released. We find out what's in it. A new book recreates the day Joe Biden lost his temper and Donald Trump nearly lost his life. One year on from that failed assassination attempt, we hear from one of the authors of a new insider account of the campaign. And it's 40 years since two billion people tuned in for Live Aid. We discuss the complex legacy of the "concert of the century".

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